Intellicast

Welcome back to Intellicast! On today’s episode, Brian Lamar and Producer Brian cover all the latest market research news, go off on a couple of tangents, and talk polling. Kicking off the episode, the guys talk about the upcoming (and last) Great Lakes Chapter of the Insights Association fall conference. Brian Lamar gives some high-level details on the changes that are being made to each chapter and why the Great Lakes Chapter is going away. Next, the guys get into a lengthy discussion around a recent Politico article, and AAPOR report that it is based on, that talks that the experts don’t know why the 2020 polls were so off, especially at the state level. The guys discuss response bias, non-response bias, and some other items that they felt impacted the results.  They then switch gears and dig into some of the recent market research news. First, they talk the news around some ownership changes, first at Cincinnati-based Garage Group, then at DJS Research in the UK. They then touch on the news that Kantar co